KROK 1 2018 – Question 187 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy

A patient has disturbed blood supply to the anterior papillary muscle of the left ventricle. What cardiac artery supplies this muscle with blood?

  1. A. Ramus circumflexus
  2. B. Ramus interventricularis posterior
  3. C. A. coronaria dextra
  4. D. Ramus interventricularis anterior
  5. E. Ramus marginalis
Hint

Consider how the left ventricular wall and its papillary muscles are divided among the branches of the left and right coronary arteries, and which branch feeds the front of the ventricle and septum.

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